(JldblCCt SCUUtlCUS. Natural Order: Polemoniacece—Polemonium Family. 
-•LIMBING COBAEA, so called from Barnabas Cobo, a Span¬ 
ish missionary in Mexico (whence the common species has 
2 been introduced), is a very luxuriant and beautiful plant, 
often growing a hundred and fifty feet or more in a single 
season. The most common kind produces large, bell-shaped 
flowers, nearly the size of a teacup, which when they first 
y-- appear are a pale green, changing gradually to a beautiful dark purple 
^ under the influence of the sun and air. There is also a variegated 
kind, and very recently a white variety has been introduced. The seeds 
are large and flat, and should be planted edgewise, as, if placed flat, 
they are apt to rot before sprouting. It can be cultivated as an annual, 
or as a permanent house-plant; in either case care should be taken in 
pruning if entirely cut back, to see that there are young shoots sprout¬ 
ing from the root near the earth, to absorb the superfluity of sap, or the plant 
will perish. 
T 
ALKERS are no good doers; be assured 
We go to use our hands, and not our tongues. 
— Shakespeare. 
QWEET were the tales she used to tell 
V- ' When summer’s eve was dear to us, 
And fading from the darkening dell, 
The glory of the sunset fell. 
— Whittier. 
T NEVER with important air 
In conversation overbear; 
My tongue within my lips I rein; 
For who talks much must talk in vain. 
— Gay. 
M Y t 
lord shall never rest; 
11 watch him tame, and talk him out. 
— Shakespeare. 
A MIRTH-MOVING jest, 
1 Which his fair tongue, conceit’s expositor, 
Delivers in such apt and gracious words 
That aged ears play truant at his tales. 
— Shakespeare. 
T T OW hard soe’er it be to bridle wit, 
A A Yet memory oft no less requires the bit. 
How many, hurried by its force away, 
Forever in the land of gossips stray! 
— Stillinfffieet. 
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